ISLAND SHANGRI-LA HOTEL

Pacific Place
Hong Kong, China

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Pacific Place is massive mixed-use urban complex in Hong Kong's 
Central district along Queensway and Hong Kong Park. Nearby are the 
famed Lippo Centre and Bank of China as well as Hong Kong's Supreme 
Courthouse. Designed by the firm of Wong & Ouyang as one of the city's 
largest comprehensive commercial developments, Pacific Place was built 
on the site of the old Victoria Barracks in two phases: Phase I 
(1985-86) and Phase II (1988-91).

The flamboyant neo-baroque luxury of the 566-room, 5-star Island 
Shangri-La Hotel fills the upper levels of this 50-story elliptical 
tower. This final tower of Phase II also includes office space called 
Two Pacific Place and parts of the Pacific Place shopping mall.

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Next to the Shangri-La is a tall complementary government office 
building, of which only a butchered angular piece of the base could be 
included (I didn't want to leave a blank plaza). The Shangri-La's "S" 
icon is not quite accurate, but I prefered mine over the more correct 
but hard to see red "S" on a white background. Also, the Shangri-La's 
large supporting columns are in reality covered with glazing, but I 
find glass columns atrociously kitschy. I also guessed on the 
half-circle base skylight as I didn't have views of that portion of 
the building. I think the curved skylight is actually made up of 
radial pyramidal skylights, but I couldn't quite draw those nicely, 
so I made it flat reflective glass (I'm particularly fond of the 
reflection in it).


Created by Lee Sojot

5/1/99
